There are lots of different ways we measure hunger. It looks like we have gone from one in seven kids being at risk to one in four. As many as 17 million American Kids at risk of hunger. Not just during the Holiday Season but especially poignant during the season but since the pandemic began. Bureausure is the census does a pulse survey. They take a regular survey of americans. They found that 15 of adults say their families are struggling to feed their kids. That is up from 1 just a year ago. Really remarkable change. Host struggling to feed their kids. Define what we mean by Food Insecurity. What does that mean in practice . Guest Food Security is kind of a socioeconomic measure that helps us understand families are struggling with their economics, with their finances to have enough food to feed their kids. They are typically taking shortcuts or skipping meals where the parents are protecting the kids by making sure the kids eat even if the parents skip meals. It means we dont have e
Against a u. S. Company in decades. Google says the government case is deeply flawed. Late tradenges in after missing on subscribers last quarter. Its outlook for the current period is below expectations and investors are not happy. Haidi we are just getting a little bit more of an update on these ongoing stimulus discussions in washington, d. C. Nancy pelosi saying she is optimistic a deal can be done before the election and that she is calling on Committee Chairs to resolve some of the differences when it comes to funding levels and language so they can get back to negotiations between her and secretary mnuchin as soon as possible, crucially saying she remains hopeful an agreement will be safer, bigger, and better, and will be retroactive as well. We are seeing that reaction when it comes to the futures markets. Lets look at the asian trading day. Sophie kamaruddin is here with us in hong kong. Seeing s pare eminis gain ground and a muted start in asia with the asx 200 coming online
Way out of recession. Factory performers stabilize while Consumer Spending shows that recovery remains on track. Year profits plummet. Cash earnings falling 52 . It includes provisions for customer compensation. Ahead. Omaui lets check in on the markets. A big week indeed. We do have asian stock futures gaining for october with friday a significant day. The start of another trading week, we do have a bunch of asian pmis do today alongside more data from china. And the offshore yuan will be below 670 after a fivemonth game. Focus with as a and alibaba. Waiting on a big milestone this week. The hong kong dollar on friday following the most since june after its close. Amid this frenzy q÷d it has been fraught with twists. None of it seems to have altered the course set month ago as joe biden continin handful of states. Pennsylvania is a huge one but everyone has been talking about ohio and the upper midwest. As well as georgia and North Carolina that have traditionally been republican. It
On may 19, a professor of law and taxation at the university of virginia law school, and a former chief of staff on the joint committee of taxation speaketh out his research and the history of the joint committee. Host the professor of Political Science at wingate university, who will discuss her research for her book manuscript about the politics of National Identification documents in the United States in the 20th century. Mission of the center is promoting research in the records of the senate and house of representatives, and advancing the study of the history of congress. This researcher talk series helps us gauge healthfully how fully that mission is being met. We do so by regularly hosting scholars who have written significant books in the history of congress. In todays much anticipated talk, we hear about one of those very significant books in the history of congress. Our guest, charles stewart, gave a marvelous talk on a book he senateored, electing the and direct democracy be
It appears what is called the case shaped recovery is permanently dividing the country and to haves and have nots and this seems to be acceptable for those who are the house. To discuss this and more im joined by my guest Michael Hudson in new york is a professor of economics at the university of missouri kansas city and author of through give them their debts and in bangkok were joined by steve keen hes a crowdfunding professor of economics on a tree on as well as a distinguished Research Fellow of the institute for strategy resilience and security of University College london gentlemen crossed up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok let me go to michael in new york you know this just term the new normal. Bandied about and what really worries me is the people that use the new normal where its a normal that is beneficial to them ok and theyre not particularly concerned about it ok because i hear more and more talk read more and more